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this is what was violated by nsa activities. washington was playing by the laws of the jungle but inside europe's post-modern system. partly this is because the distinction is not easy to maintain. what if you look for terrorists within europe. that is people who still play by the laws of the jungle or even worse. america as a global power is operating all over the world trying to tackle some of the nastiest threats out there. perhaps it doesn't have the luxury to retreat to a garden and renounce nasty tactics. if it did, it's not likely that china, russia, al qaeda would follow suit. precisely because washington has to get its hands dirty, it should be smart about this. you don't stop terrorists in europe by listening in on angela merkel's cell phone. the rewards of spying on friendly heads of government are probably outweighed by the risks. and most troubling, it's not clear that many of these specific activities were clearly thought through and directed by the white house. nor do they appear to have been vetted by congress. i
this is what was violated by nsa activities. washington was playing by the laws of the jungle but inside europe's post-modern system. partly this is because the distinction is not easy to maintain. what if you look for terrorists within europe. that is people who still play by the laws of the jungle or even worse. america as a global power is operating all over the world trying to tackle some of the nastiest threats out there. perhaps it doesn't have the luxury to retreat to a garden and...
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she defended the nsa program. and then to learn two or three months later that she personally was tapped and then to learn that actually the american president knew about it already in summer, that's one of the moments which i would consider being face losing relevance. >> you know angela merkel well. you served as her defense minister. how angry do you think she is? >> she is, i think, really disappointed. and she is very analytical person but she shows lots of emotions when it comes to transatlantic friendship and partnership. and to have someone on the other side of the atlantic who is not willing to communicate at the moment when you need to talk to each other. such things can be resolved. someone who is not willing to send someone over to germany to explain what is happening or to paris or to other places but to wait up until the moment german delegation comes to washington are tiny diplomatic steps that would be helpful installed at the right place. >> pleasure to have you on. thank you so much. >> great to
she defended the nsa program. and then to learn two or three months later that she personally was tapped and then to learn that actually the american president knew about it already in summer, that's one of the moments which i would consider being face losing relevance. >> you know angela merkel well. you served as her defense minister. how angry do you think she is? >> she is, i think, really disappointed. and she is very analytical person but she shows lots of emotions when it...
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the extent to which that's going on. >> first on the specifics of the wisdom, i can understand the nsa tapping, doing all kinds of things, analyzing metal data to find terrorists in europe, and it was a big sell. should it be using its most aggressive methods, to perhaps tap the phone of the chancellor of germany, the information they're going to get, is germany going to bail out greece. you can tap the phone, but you could probably ask them and you would get 80% or 90% of the answer. how should we think about that issue? >> i think the basic point is correct, that that particular operation, if we look just at it seems now improved and it was done because someone had said this is a low priority intelligence requirement to collect on allied talks or whatever, the technology, the nsa operatives figured out how to do it, it was legal for them to do it, so they did it. but the risk to the bilateral relationship to the industry and to our telecommunications companies outweighed any possible benefit we can get. >> do you think there should be greater restraints on the nsa, in terms of what i
the extent to which that's going on. >> first on the specifics of the wisdom, i can understand the nsa tapping, doing all kinds of things, analyzing metal data to find terrorists in europe, and it was a big sell. should it be using its most aggressive methods, to perhaps tap the phone of the chancellor of germany, the information they're going to get, is germany going to bail out greece. you can tap the phone, but you could probably ask them and you would get 80% or 90% of the answer. how...
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the nsa program p.r.i.s.m. aims to identify suspicious patterns to allow the government to prevent terrorism. that is, to act before a terrorist event takes place. a research project at the department of homeland security that tried to predict terrorist behavior based on people's vital signs, physiological patterns was 70% accurate according to the authors. as far as we know, the u.s. government has bken no laws with all of this surveillance. it has followed all established procedures. congress approved these programs, though it did so in secret, writing laws that aren't public. shouldn't we know more about the actual checks and balances for this kind of surveillance? the larger question "big data" raises is this. should any government be permitted to use computer analys analysis, even if highly accurate, to observe, inform, quarantine or even arrest people because they are likely to do something bad? that seems like a scenario from a sci-fi thriller, yet here we are very close to a real world version. for more
the nsa program p.r.i.s.m. aims to identify suspicious patterns to allow the government to prevent terrorism. that is, to act before a terrorist event takes place. a research project at the department of homeland security that tried to predict terrorist behavior based on people's vital signs, physiological patterns was 70% accurate according to the authors. as far as we know, the u.s. government has bken no laws with all of this surveillance. it has followed all established procedures. congress...
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the nsa operatives figured out how to do it. it was legal for them to do it so they did it. despite being legal, it was imprudent because the risk to bilateral relationship and to the governance of the industry and to telecommunication companies outweighed any benefit we can get. >> do you think there should be greater constraints on the nsa in terms of what it can do in gathering data from private citizens and gathering data from leaders? >> you have to separate it from legal constraint and policy constraint. we hope it doesn't change. i think on the policy side what the administration does within the law and where it decides to put its priorities, that part needs to be tightened up and strengthened. >> for prudential reasons, the risk to reward ratio with an allied government -- >> i think that we can argue went too far. you are making a larger argument that the prospects of these intelligent agencies being able to tap phones, analyze e-mails is frightening. >> it is frightening. it might well be necessary. it is necessary. but in a google and facebook and others increasin
the nsa operatives figured out how to do it. it was legal for them to do it so they did it. despite being legal, it was imprudent because the risk to bilateral relationship and to the governance of the industry and to telecommunication companies outweighed any benefit we can get. >> do you think there should be greater constraints on the nsa in terms of what it can do in gathering data from private citizens and gathering data from leaders? >> you have to separate it from legal...
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all of this was done against the backdrop of the nsa revelations. the europeans didn't like the fact in some cases they were being watched and listened to and read. >> but you know this from dealing with your counterparts, if the european -- if european governments had the ability technologically, they have much more intrusive intelligence operations than we do. they don't have an aclu. >> that's also the balance in their societies often has been less supportive or protective of individual privacy to the extent the united states is. they have been a little bit more intrusive. some of them, by the way, do have fairly extensive intelligence operations like the brits. all these stories coming out about things they may have done in terms of monitoring people at the various g-8 summits. the principal message of the president was about arms control and call for further reductions in u.s./soviet warheads. >> you're dating yourself. u.s./russian warheads. >> he's dating himself. this is no longer quite so exciting for people. he actually also gave short sol
all of this was done against the backdrop of the nsa revelations. the europeans didn't like the fact in some cases they were being watched and listened to and read. >> but you know this from dealing with your counterparts, if the european -- if european governments had the ability technologically, they have much more intrusive intelligence operations than we do. they don't have an aclu. >> that's also the balance in their societies often has been less supportive or protective of...
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trip comes amid a report from the german magazine ""der spiegel"" saying it's been monitored by the nsa for more than 10 years. >>> a series of explosions rocked the city of baghdad early sunday morning. iraq's state-run tv is reporting that in one incident, a car bomb killed five people and wounded 11 when it exploded at a marketplace. more than 6,000 people have been killed in iraq this year. at least 350 deaths so far this month. >>> five people in a brooklyn home were fatally stabbed last night, including four children. one man has been taken into custody for the killings which also claimed the life of a 37-year-old woman. it is not clear what led to the stabbings, and investigators have not released the names of the victims. >>> those are your "top stories." now back to from a reed zakaria, "gps." >>> we all know the biblical story of david and goliath. david fights a giant named goliath. and perhaps the most famous underdog in history kills goliath in the unlikeliest of victories. but for all these years, have we gotten the story and its lessons all wrong? that's what malcolm glad
trip comes amid a report from the german magazine ""der spiegel"" saying it's been monitored by the nsa for more than 10 years. >>> a series of explosions rocked the city of baghdad early sunday morning. iraq's state-run tv is reporting that in one incident, a car bomb killed five people and wounded 11 when it exploded at a marketplace. more than 6,000 people have been killed in iraq this year. at least 350 deaths so far this month. >>> five people in a...
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michael hayden led the cia and the nsa, the national security agency. welcome back to the show. >> thanks, fareed. >> watching boston. what did you think? you look at these guys and no particular track record, one trip, maybe they had radical views, but had never done anything violent. >> which is a fairly large club. >> which is a fairly large club. so, is there some system? should we be thinking of a way we could stop this in the future? >> here's why i choose to think about it, fareed. if you look at this attack. look at any attack, particularly looking in the rear view mirror as opposed to looking through the wind screen, you could judge that it could have been prevented. this was preventable, if. but let me also offer you the view that attacks of this nature are inevitable. this is like penalty kicks in soccer. no matter how good the goalie is, sooner than later the ball is going in the back of the net. i don't mean to be so dark for your viewers but they have to understand we're working in a part of the spectrum now that is well below what we expe
michael hayden led the cia and the nsa, the national security agency. welcome back to the show. >> thanks, fareed. >> watching boston. what did you think? you look at these guys and no particular track record, one trip, maybe they had radical views, but had never done anything violent. >> which is a fairly large club. >> which is a fairly large club. so, is there some system? should we be thinking of a way we could stop this in the future? >> here's why i choose to...